May December director Todd Haynes said of first reading Samy Burch's script, "I loved how disquieting it was for the reader and thought, 'Wow, if there was a way to convey this on screen and ignite that sense of engaged questioning and uncertainty'… It reminded me of the kind of movies that I came of age…

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the sequel to Aardman Animation's 2000 stop-motion hit, is arriving 23 years after the original. Mused director Sam Fell during a panel at Deadline's Contenders London, "At the end of the first one, you're kind of a bit sick of chickens. It takes about three or four years…

"I wanted to tell a story about the environment that I grew up in but based in the biblical era and merge the two," Jeymes Samuel told Deadline's Baz Bamigboye of the idea behind his latest pic, The Book of Clarence, at London Contenders.  Starring LaKeith Stanfield, David Oyelowo, and Benedict…

In the David Fincher-directed film, The Killer, from a screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker, and based on a graphic novel, Michael Fassbender stars as an assassin battling his employers when a hit goes terribly wrong. Speaking during a panel at Deadline’s Contenders London event, editor Kirk Baxter…

Napoleon director-producer Ridley Scott was on stage at Deadline’s Contenders London event to discuss the journey behind his latest epic and why he chose Joaquin Phoenix to portray the iconic Emperor. Speaking about casting Oscar winner Phoenix, who he had previously worked with on Gladiator [in…

The production team behind Barbie was on hand at Deadline’s Contenders London event to reveal some of the secrets behind the smash hit’s unique journey and what set it on the road to becoming the year’s biggest movie at the box office. Greta Gerwig’s acclaimed fantasy comedy, starring Margot Robbie…

Greek writer-director Christos Nikou wanted to explore the modern concept of love when he approached his English-language debut Fingernails starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed and Luke Wilson. Speaking at Deadline's Contenders London event, the Apples director admitted that the concept of dating apps and…

"We're very proud of this movie," Julie O'Keefe, Osage clothing consultant on Killers of the Flower Moon, said during Contenders London of the response to Martin Scorsese's latest feature from the Native American community. The film, adapted from David Grann's bestseller by Scorsese and Eric Roth and…

Emerald Fennell talked the expected starting point for her new film Saltburn at Deadline’s Contenders London event. The director's follow-up to her Oscar Best Picture-nominated and Best Screenplay-winner Promising Young Woman stars Barry Keoghan as working-class Oxford University student Oliver, who…

After sitting it out last year, Deadline's Contenders film series returns to London today with a strong lineup featuring Ridley Scott, Emerald Fennell, Todd Haynes and Michael Mann among the panelists attending the awards-season event. Contenders London gets underway this morning at London’s Ham Yard…

Deadline held its annual Contenders Television: The Nominees awards-season event over the weekend, this year spotlighting 13 scripted, unscripted and nonfiction titles from nine networks, studios and streamers. The conversations with the creatives behind the projects allowed for deep dives into their work…

For the past 10 years, RuPaul’s Drag Race has delighted fans with the Rusical — a musical production during each season that features the remaining contestants performing their take on a famous show. The concept has become somewhat of a staple on the series, though none have been quite as topical as…